A photographer view of life and the controversies around him in a little, tropical Colombian town.

A man is making a research about the importance of familiar environment in children's future. First, he interviews a prostitute, Rosa, who's in jail because of the murderer of her pimp. She was a poor child, living only with her father. He wants to send his daughter to school, but they don't find place and the father has to leave the child with the neighbour, while he's working. But the man is hit by a car and dies. Years later, Rosa finds herself alone after her adoptive mother dies. A young man from his same vicinity, wants to help her, after hearing her singing. But the truth is that he wants to turn Rosa into a prostitute and live from her money. The other story is about a boy, who goes with his father to sign up in the school.

A puritanical man travels to the capital to visit nightclubs and introduces himself as a bachelor, but to his surprise, he finds himself there with his wife.

Small-town Arabic family moves to Mexico City to live with the oldest son who made his career there. Follow-up (not a direct sequel) to El baisano Jalil (1942).

A stranded ship. A man and two boys go to its rescue - uncle Arturo and his two nephews. The ship is empty, except for a little girl - the only survivor.

A guy threatens suicide when the woman he loves gets engaged to another man, then he enters into an arrangement with her whereby she will nurse him back to mental health during the six months until her fiancé comes back from Europe

Spanish immigrant wants his sons to join him in running his business, but they all have other ambitions.

When the mother of a sailor who had written to him that he was the commander appears on the ship, two friends help him in the deception.

Daniel is a young medical student. He lives in a student pension called "The Star" next to a group of student friends like him. Daniel is going to try to have his mother reconcile with his grandmother.

Jeca Tatu is a lazy, simple-minded guy who has his property threatened by the greed of a landowner.